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This Week in DVD & Blu-ray: The King’s Speech, Rabbit Hole, Somewhere, Gulliver’s Travels, The Way Back, and More
This Week in DVD & Blu-ray is a column that compiles all the latest info regarding new DVD and Blu-ray releases, sales, and exclusive deals from stores including Target, Best Buy and Fry’s.The King's SpeechApproaching a story of monumental scope with charm and intimacy, The King's Speech is a finely crafted crowd-pleaser that plays fast and loose with history [1] but does so to convey a decidedly more human tale of finding one's inner strength in order to be heard. There's not a single surprising moment in the whole thing, as every element of the limply conventional narrative has been depicted in film on countless occasions — the movie of the week disorder, the reluctant leader, the unorthodox therapist/psychiatrist, etc. — but rarely have these humdrum plot mechanics been handled with such authority and wit. The acting is superb across the board, with Colin Firth and Geoffrey Rush marvelously portraying»
- Adam Quigley
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Hot Interactive Teaser: 'Super 8'
Hollywood's track record for turning video and computer games into movies is spotty. Top titles like Halo and Bioshock got halted along the way, and many of the hottest games don't even get set up for films because game designers won't sell them. But Paramount Pictures found a smart way to tap into the gaming audience for its Jj Abrams-directed alien film Super 8. Every geek on earth last night was playing the Valve game Portal 2, and the studio inserted this interactive trailer to the film. I'm told that the execution was nothing to brag about. It wasn't really interactive and you you couldn't jump or move around that freely. But transferring the action to vidgame graphics, putting gamers inside the train car that crashes and unleashes the alien, and getting that crowd excited about the film was certainly thinking outside the box. Here's the trailer as gamers saw it:»
- MIKE FLEMING
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